I listed to Fluffy Pony on the Bad Bitcoin podcast a few days ago and he made a good point I had not considered ( foolishly). Hes so deep in to his web of lies, lies that people have put their faith and money in to believing hes actually Satoshi , that if he finally fessed up hed lose all that income /potential income and every particle of his reputation.
Yep, there's no way back for him now. People either
already recognise him for the fraud that he is, or
will soon recognise him for the fraud that he is. It's only a matter of time before he's totally discredited, but he has literally no other choice, short of disappearing from the public eye and going into hiding, perhaps, than to keep pushing forward with increasingly implausible lies.
Once he get's his next payoff (with the forkening of that shitcoin and the ability to take control over unmoved coins, such as those that satoshi would have had), if he does not get put into custody, he may disappear, at the point of cashing some of those out. Liquid enough? enough believers to keep up the price while he is cashing out?
He might need some kind of facial (non)recognition surgery, too. Maybe a trip to India, even if that one has already been done? He is not exactly a stickler for originality, so he can build upon previous used techniques, take them to a new level of absurd and claim them as his own.